As in several past exhortations, your prescription for righting America’s increasingly entrenched political ills — in this case, the specter of a far-right Supreme Court for the rest of our lives — is to send more of us, in our anger and dismay, to the polls to vote.

The computerized vote counting era (2002 to the present) has not been a happy one for America or for American democracy. It has led to where we are now, and the signs are that it will lead us to worse. We must recognize the urgency of protecting our elections by restoring public, observable vote-counting and auditing.

I suspect that angry, anxious voters will turn out this November in droves. They deserve to know that their votes will be counted as cast. They are also more likely to vote if they have that knowledge.

If we want our democracy back — if we want to ensure that it is the people, not the programmers or hackers, setting our national direction — we must insist not just on the right to vote but also on the right (and the duty) to count those votes in public.

JONATHAN D. SIMONFELTON, CALIF.

The writer, executive director of the Election Defense Alliance, is the author of “CODE RED: Computerized Elections and the War on American Democracy.”